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Lynn Marshall 
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 Topic: Coming up on 40 years old
Posted: 13 hours 42 minutes ago at 9:38pm |
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AC720Man
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Posted: 13 hours 13 minutes ago at 10:07pm |
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1968 B-208, 1976 720 (2 of them)Danco brush hog, single bottom plow,52" snow thrower, belly mower,rear tine tiller, rear blade, front blade, 57"sickle bar,1983 917 hydro, 1968 7hp sno-bee, 1968 190XTD
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Tbone95
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Posted: 6 hours 57 minutes ago at 4:23am |
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Just does not to this day seem real.
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DrAllis
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I remember being at an unofficial Dealer meeting just before the Deutz thing actually took place. There was a rumor that Kubota was also interested in buying the Allis-Chalmers farm equipment division. Many of us were hoping that would happen, as they had a line of smaller tractors and nothing over 100 HP for sure and maybe not over 60 or 70 HP at the time. They had a very small dealer network. Their color was ORANGE !! A veteran dealer stood up and said " At this point we should hope ONE of them gets A-C bought out. Because if they don't, we are all finished."
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Lynn Marshall
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Posted: 59 minutes ago at 10:21am |
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I find it almost comical now after reading those letters. High horsepower tractors of modern design, new technologies, many new features???? What we finally got was the 9100 series. A White tractor with a duetz engine and green paint. Now,those tractors were actually pretty good, for what they were, but they were certainly a step backwards from the 8000 series Allis. I don't remember if the monetary exchange figured into why the tractors never got built in Germany?? And if the 8000 series were going to be changed,I can't believe that wouldn't have been an improvement. A third range or even a full power shift was probably just around the corner. It's as if there wasn't much thought into this takeover and not understanding your customer base. Kubota would have been a much better choice in my opinion. Look where they are now.
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DrAllis
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And look where Kubota could be now, if they had latched on to the 8000 series, maybe even with their own engine !! The White driveline was fine, for a non-power shift transmission, but the 8000's as-is with a new engine for a couple three more years would have been better (I think) than the White chassis experiment.
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Posted: 44 minutes ago at 10:36am |
Sigh, had a good day going.
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